firewall blocking 53

[Eric L. Howard]

At a certain time, now past, Pete Ehlke spake thusly:
> 
> On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 09:54:36AM -0700, Armin Safarians wrote:
> > 
> > Any ideas..?
> > AMS :-)
> 
> Well, I'd say this is either a... ummm... feature... of Firewall-1, or
> your firewall is poorly configured. If it's dynamically blocking ports
> based on the fact that some outbound connections time out, then you'll
> have to either configure it not to do that, or deal with the
> consequences.

This timeout is something that you can configure in Firewall-1.  Look under
the properties for your rule-set.  40 *seconds* is a long time to wait for
return traffic...

       ~elh

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